July 18, morning. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Nearly 100 warships and transport ships of the North Sea Fleet swept into Jinzhou Bay, and more than 100 naval guns launched fierce artillery bombardment on targets on the shore.

The 2,000 Tartar cavalry in Jinzhou fled north before tens of thousands of Ming troops surrounded them, and in the continuous shelling, more than 3,500 Liaodong puppet troops surrendered.

Guo Zhongjun, commander-in-chief of the Western Front, judged the situation and made a decisive decision, ordering the veteran general Li Yiliang to lead the 3rd Division of the Fushan Army to stay in Jinzhou to stabilize the situation, reorganize the prisoners, and personally lead the 1st and 2nd Divisions of the Fushan Army and three cavalry regiments with a total of 18,000 soldiers to pursue the victory.

At about the same time, 42,000 soldiers under the command of Wu Jicheng, the commander-in-chief of the Dongjiang New Army, crossed the Yalu River in three directions, and launched a fierce attack on the Houjin defenders on the front line of Jiuliancheng with the support of the naval guns of 18 fast warships.

Up to 80,000 people, under the command of logistics officers and men, gathered on the banks of the Yalu River and methodically loaded thousands of truckloads of weapons, ammunition, grain, and grass onto densely packed ships of all sizes, and sent them to the north bank of the fierce fighting amid the roaring sound of artillery and shouts of killing.

July 19, evening.

Zhu Daolin led 3,000 guards to the intact city of Jinzhou, and the two cavalry regiments of the 2nd and 4th Marine Divisions and the Fushan Army led by Jiang Yulong had occupied Haizhouwei (present-day Haicheng, Liaoning), 120 miles south of Liaoyang, and were currently engaged in a fierce battle with 5,000 Tartar reinforcements and more than 1,000 remnants of Liaoyang.

The main force of the Quang Ninh Tatar garrison in the west, more than 5,000 people, has been tightly pinned down outside Gaizhou by 20,000 soldiers under the command of Guo Zhongjun since yesterday afternoon, but there is no news on the battle situation on the eastern front.

July 21, noon.

Escorted by 3,000 personal guards, Zhu Daolin successfully arrived in the east of Gaizhou City, passing the tens of thousands of people who were constantly transporting supplies to the north and the surrendered puppet army.

When the soldiers under his command saw the fiery red phoenix handsome flag of the handsome Zhu Daolin, their morale was greatly boosted.

Guo Zhongjun successfully completed the task of containing the enemy's main force, and finally issued the order for the whole army to turn from defense to attack, and more than 60 hidden artillery pieces quickly joined the battle and launched a fierce artillery bombardment on the enemy camp on the opposite side.

More than 20,000 soldiers took flintlock pistols and poured out, forming more than ten phalanxes, unhurriedly attacking the chaotic enemy camp.

Under Zhu Daolin's order, 3,000 guards, armed with single-shot rifles, together with 3,500 cavalry of the Fushan Army, bypassed the enemy camp from the flank, and used the advantages of rifles, flintlock pistols, revolvers, and sturdy armor to easily defeat the blocking enemy, and blocked all retreats with a dense rain of bullets before the enemy's main force fled.

The terrified 6,000-odd Tartars hesitated slightly, and were surrounded by a Ming army several times their size, suffering heavy casualties under the dense rain of bullets, and had to defend the camp.

However, more than 100 high-powered mortars and four-barrel rocket launchers of the Ming army pushed to the front of the formation, and launched a devastating artillery bombardment on the more than 6,000 terrified and stubborn Tartars in the camp.

In just half an hour, the entire battalion was razed to the ground by heavy artillery fire.

Four battalions of Ming musketeers followed, mercilessly slaughtering the Tartars who were lucky enough to die or had gone insane.

In desperation of the defenders of Gaizhou City, which was close at hand, they opened the city and fled, and were soon annihilated one by one by the Ming cavalry that pursued them in an orderly manner.

The two regiments of the Ming army musketeers had already killed the red eye, and quickly attacked the city after the order, and in the evening, tens of thousands of people who followed transported thousands of wagons of grain, grass, weapons and ammunition into Gaizhou City, and after learning the news that the enemy had been destroyed in this battle and captured countless people, the cheers shook the sky, and it lasted for a long time, and countless soldiers and civilians left tears of excitement.

The battle situation in Gaizhou soon spread to Haizhou Wei, and the extremely shocked Liaoyang Tatar reinforcements quickly withdrew from the battlefield, trying to return to Liaoyang to wait for reinforcements, who knew that Wu Jicheng, who had 40,000 troops, had already prepared to besiege the city and send reinforcements with only the main force of one division plus 30,000 armed people, besieged Liaoyang City, which was empty, and sent five cavalry regiments to continuously harass the counties and towns north and west of Liaoyang, and then used three main divisions and five artillery battalions to lay pockets at the ferry port fifteen miles south of the city.

The 5,000 Tatar cavalry who returned overnight crashed headlong into the ambush circle of the Dongjiang New Army, and under the continuous bombardment of nearly 100 artillery pieces, they suffered heavy casualties and quickly collapsed.

Far beyond the Tartars' imagination of the dense rain of bullets roared, the Tartar cavalry had fallen in pieces before they could identify the direction, the main general Shuotuo in nearly a hundred white-armored guards under the cover of his own desperate self, turned around and fled south, just rushed to the river was knocked to the ground by the increasingly dense rain of bullets.

The out-of-control war horses neighed desperately, jumped wildly, and countless horses' hooves stepped on the white-armored soldiers and Shuotuo and others who were shot and fell to the ground, so that no one could identify Shuotuo's identity after dawn, and finally from the damaged armor and the seal carried on his body, it was determined that a certain unrecognizable guy was Shuotuo, the second son of the Tartar general who stayed in Liaoyang and the second son of Daishan, the owner of the gold-inlaid blue flag banner.

The successive victories greatly boosted the morale of the officers and men.

The devastating blow effect brought about by the powerful strike firepower that far surpassed the opponent made the whole army full of confidence. After discussing with Jiang Yulong and other generals, Wu Jicheng, who was full of confidence, immediately sent someone to send the good news to Gaizhou, and then led the whole army to surround Liaoyang City, starting the battle of Liaoyang that shocked the world.

July 23, afternoon.

Zhu Daolin and Guo Zhongjun led 20,000 soldiers to Liaoyang, and when they saw Liaoyang City burning in ruins from a distance, they couldn't help but stop, and their eyes were full of deep shock.

Wu Jicheng and Jiang Yulong, who rushed to hear the news, happily reported to Zhu Daolin that more than 50,000 enemy soldiers and civilians had been annihilated in this battle, more than 20,000 horses had been captured, and countless grains, grasses, cattle and sheep had been captured.

The only regret is that the Tartar soldiers and civilians in Liaoyang City did not surrender one after another, so they failed to leave a few decent houses, and the city wall also blew down five big mouths, if it weren't for Jiang Yulong and several generals under his command to rush into the city and order to stop it, I am afraid that the soldiers who killed the red eyes would even burn down the last surviving palace in the city and two granaries.

The villages and towns within a radius of dozens of miles were even more careless, and the soldiers did not leave any living creatures except cattle, sheep and horses, and many Han people in Liaodong who knelt on the ground and begged for mercy were also killed by mistake.

Zhu Daolin, who knew that time was precious, not only did not punish him, but praised him greatly, and then said "The soldiers are noble and fast, and they advance by victory", and the 60,000 troops that converged on the three routes quickly completed the assembly, handed over all the captures to the logistics brothers and the soldiers and civilians, and quickly replenished ammunition to eat and rest.

On July 25, the Ming army's forward 5,000 cavalry and the gathered Tartar 7,000 cavalry fought fiercely in Shenyang 50 miles south of the city, and the Tartar cavalry, who had no way to retreat, fought to the death under Dai Shan's strict order, and finally defeated the Ming cavalry after more than an hour of fierce fighting, annihilated 2,000 and captured a batch of flintlock muskets and high-quality armor, but they paid the tragic price of more than 4,000 casualties, so they could only hurriedly retreat to Shenyang and defend to the death.

July 26, noon.

After half an hour of artillery bombardment, the 80,000 soldiers under the command of Zhu Daolin easily destroyed the three large camps set up by the enemy outside the city, and surrounded the city of Shenyang with the 30,000 Tartar troops and 100,000 Tartar people gathered from all directions.

Dai Shan's urgent report was also delivered to Huang Taiji, who was sitting in the north of Xuanfu on this day, and the North Korean army of 50,000 troops also crossed the Yalu River on the same day and rushed to Shenyang in a hurry to fight for a piece of the pie in the name of supporting the Ming Dynasty.

July 28, noon.

Dai Shan, the Tatar chieftain who stayed in Shenyang, refused to surrender unconditionally for the third time, and the 80,000 Ming soldiers who were waiting for the battle finally launched the siege of Shenyang.

With the assistance of 50,000 North Korean troops and nearly 100,000 people who shared the same hatred, more than 600 artillery pieces were dropped into the city in just one and a half hours.

Tens of thousands of Tartar defenders had returned to the underworld before they could understand what was going on, and most of the city of Shenyang was in ruins in the blink of an eye.

Thousands of people were killed in the blazing fires, the walls were littered with severed limbs, desperate Houjin nobles killed themselves, and groups of devastated defenders threw away their weapons and fled, pouring into the city's only intact but heavily guarded palace.

Before the sound of artillery stopped, the east and west city walls collapsed in an earth-shattering loud noise, and countless Ming soldiers rushed into the city in a steady stream of earth-shattering shouts of killing, indiscriminately slaughtering all moving targets.

The two major city gates in the north and south were soon occupied by the Ming army, and a group of murderous cavalry rushed into the city gate that had just been opened, followed by the tide of Ming infantry behind them, and once again surrounded the palace crowded with Houjin nobles and the last force, and tens of thousands of flintlock muskets quickly fired at the stubborn defenders on the low walls of the palace.

At sunset, the closed palace gate shattered with two cannon shots, and the last fortress of the Later Jin regime was shattered.

Huang Taiji, who was thousands of miles away, still had not completed the build-up of troops until this time, his fat face still had the usual confident look, although he was anxious, although he had a premonition that the fate of the entire Houjin regime was in danger, he firmly believed in the ability of Dai Shan and the strong strength of the people in the later army, and firmly believed that the 80,000 Dongjiang New Army was absolutely incapable of taking Liaoyang.

In Huang Taiji's view, Jinzhou Wei and Gaizhou fell under a shameless sneak attack, and even if the well-equipped Dongjiang New Army had muskets and artillery, it would not be able to capture Liaoyang, let alone Shenyang, within a month.

Huang Taiji firmly believes that as long as he leads an army of 70,000 to rush back, all crises will disappear, and the next thing is how to take revenge on the new army of Dongjiang.

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ps: Thank you Shan Qingying, thank you Bookworm Boy and Lin Cheng for your great encouragement! (To be continued.) )